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Flat Earth Community / Re: Help this student understand the society!

« on: January 10, 2018, 12:43:45 PM »

You led out with the wrong question. Your intentions to humiliate, not understand were clear. Still, I guess you learned something after all.

That is definitely not the case here. Again, I'm sorry I made you feel this way. The order of the questions were semi-randomly chosen, the only thing that wasn't random is that I wanted to start of with demographic-centric questions first and go in-depth later. That's the only decision I consciously made while preparing this questionnaire. Would it help if I started of with a different question? And what question would that be?

My intentions where not to humiliate, but to find out what channels are the main channels for communicating the Flat Earth Theory, and my plan was to do it as objectively as possible. It seems that I failed at doing that.

Hey PingPong, might I suggest donning a pair of kid gloves and trying again?

Great suggestion, but considering how the response was to this survey makes me think a survey isn't the best way of going about this. I at least need to edit the survey if I want to reach the people I want to reach without eliciting the response I'm getting now.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Help this student understand the society!

« on: January 08, 2018, 02:47:19 PM »

Thank you guys for the responses!

This survey was meant for me to find which channels are the usual channels for people to communicate Flat Earth Theory. It was only meant as a starting point for further research. Even though this method gives quantitative information, it will ultimately lead to qualitative information, since I will be able to focus my research more clearly.

Maybe his class has specific requirements about the information he needs to gather too for some reason, classes usually will.

That is indeed the case, thanks for clearing that up.

Why would you set out to try and pigeon hole flat earther's as stupid and ill-educated and then expect co-operation in your survey?

I'm sorry I made you feel that way. I tried to be as respectful as possible and I apparently failed at that. Could you tell me which part of the survey made you feel disrespected? Was it the question about education or was there more?

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Flat Earth Community / Help this student understand the society!

« on: December 20, 2017, 02:08:15 PM »

Hey guys,

I'm a communications student, I'm doing a project on the Flat Earth society and I'd love to know more about you! And no, I'm not talking about the theory itself, but I'm talking about the people behind it. If you think, or should I say, KNOW the Earth is flat and have 5 minutes to spare, then you could help me lots be filling in this questionnaire: https://goo.gl/forms/0CCVKq4bWCCfqTq83

Thank you lots!